Weaves and Wemons

It's become clear that Katen doesn't pronounce her "L" sounds very well. We noticed it first with her passion for collecting fallen "weaves" and most recently as she reads her book about sour "wemons." Her pediatrician says not to worry though.

She's also convinced that all things run on batteries. When her CD player (that plugs in) stopped playing music she told me It doesn't work. It needs Batteries! We need to go Bye, Bye to the store.

Here are a few pictures to show what else we've been up to...


^ Katen at 2 mos (adjusted) and Ana at 2 mos.

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^ Katen has been working on ABC's and 123's. She can count to 11, sometimes higher, and knows a good portion of her alphabet. Our afternoon learning activities have been centered around creating letters. A alligator, B bee, C crab, D duck, and P peacock. (She was obsessed with the word peacock one day so we made him out of order.) I've been sandwiching the letters in contact paper once they're created because you can see what happened to Mr. Peacock and who knows what demise the D duck met. He's MIA.

^ This pretty much sums up our December and January. Record snowfall, lots of ice. Enough said. Let's not dwell on it. ;)

^ our Groundhog Day craft

^ F is for fish! I hope gluestick isn't toxic, because those fish on the F are missing...

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Somersaults

Here's some video of Katen doing a somersault. Notice how static-ey it makes her hair. Ha!

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December in pictures

Our blizzard

Getting a picture of both girls smiling and looking at the camera is like hearding cats.  ...nearly impossible.  :)
















This is a picture of Katen (left) at the same age as Ana (right) for comparison

Ana is much bigger since she wasn't a preemie and has more hair.

Ana's Growth Chart

Ana's Growth Chart

Birth: 7lbs,12oz  20 inches long
2 weeks: 9lbs, 10oz  21.25 inches long 50th percentile for height and weight

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We have a one month old and a two year old big girl

Ana is a month old and I don't know where the last month went! It's been such a whirl wind of holidays and visitors and getting to know one another. I think we're finally into our groove now though. Every family member knows what to expect and has settled into their new role.

Ana has really bad acid reflux, so she's sleeping in her swing and on me these days. That's about the only way that I can get two consecutive hours of sleep at a time. Even propped up in the swing, Ana still refluxes and the milk from her stomach comes up into her throat and nose and chokes her. She sputters and chokes and wheezes and screams until one of us picks her up and clears her airway. It's really pretty frightening sometimes. I look forward to the day when she grows out of it so that we can get some sleep, she's not in pain, and so that we can put her down for more than five minutes without her wailing. Katen was the same way at this age. Thank goodness she turned into a pretty cool kid eventually.

On the positive side, Ana is definitley more alert now and spends more time awake. She's smiling a little bit and is especially fond of her daddy. He gets the most smiles.  :) She'll also coo a little bit if you catch her in a good mood.

Katen keeps herself busy while Ana eats by sitting next to me reading books, playing with toys, or coloring. The tag jr. and little touch leap pad have been wonderful for nursing time as well. The interactive storybooks are great at keeping Katen's curious mind engaged!

She's also learning some new songs. In her playlist is:  Row, Row, Row Your Boat,  ABC's, Little Teapot, 5 Green and Speckeled Frogs, the "Hot Dog" song from Mickey Mouse, and a few random songs that her toys play. It's really cute to hear her playing along and singing to herself. So sweet!

Christmas was a good one. We had another huge winter storm so we weren't able to make it to my family's Christmas but we did go the night before to attend the church service. I always enjoy singing the Christmas songs. Ana did okay. She only fussed a bit and then fell asleep for a while. Katen did okay until the candle lighting began. Everybody got a candle and passed along the flame. Of course Katen wanted a candle too and I flinched more than once as she whizzed past the family members in our pew narrowly escaping having her wild curly hair catch fire. Oy! Shortly after that "Mamo" Deb took her out to run back and forth across the church kitchen. A nice lady even gave her some cheese. Ha!   (Mamo is Katen's word for Grandma.) After church the drive home got a little yucky with slick roads and more snow falling but we took it slow and made it safe and sound.  All of our other Christmases were great too. It's always good to see family and share some yummy food.

Here are some of the funny phrases Katen is throwing around this week. It seems like each week she learns something new. 

Oh Wow! (this has been one of her favorite phrases for a while now, only second to "Yeah." which she says to nearly everything. )
Nice!
das Dangous (dangerous)  -not surprisingly we have to tell her not to do things because it's dangerous a lot
Okie Okie (okey dokey)
obendit  (open it)
bouce (bounce) she bounces everywhere, all the time! I'd blow out a knee.
Ana's kankey  (Ana's Cranky)   :)  Ask Katen how Ana is doing and that is what she'll tell you.
No way!
Way cool!
Bic girl  (big girl)
Das Mossy (that's messy)
... and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. I love her little "toddler-ese" language.